The details aren’t shown - the emotion of the scene is half about the kiss and half about the cheering and exaggerated expressions going on in the background.
I like to think that it’s presenting them in the way in which Ezra or Sabine might understand the relationship. To me, it’s a very interesting way to handle a relationship between two adults with their own complex lives and emotions on a children’s show. Kanan and Hera’s kiss after a long time of will-they, won’t-they, and have-they-already is both a gift and a nudge to the shippers the script still doesn’t answer a lot of questions about their relationship. Instead, the wolves are like gentle spirits of Lothal itself, plus some dinosaurian claws and dragon-like faces. There’s little outright explanation here, but plenty of ways to piece the puzzle together, and no “it was all a dream”-style ending. The wolves don’t lean too heavily into the mysticism that divided fans over the Mortis arc of The Clone Wars. Wolves are cool, Dave Filoni says gently. Unencumbered by either excessive lore-wrangling or Mortis-style mumbo jumbo, the wolves are a powerful, mysterious clan that got right at the part of me that would have been drawing reams of half-decent loth-wolf fanart when I was a teenager. Throughout, there’s a sense of a larger power at work, some lower-case force in the planet itself. The mysticism of this episode emanates from the wolves, but this isn’t exactly a case of Ezra being a Jedi prodigy and just summoning them. I’ve said before how much I like that Ezra’s Force powers connect to animals. It feels much more natural than Rebels sometimes does, just in time for the stakes to get higher. This episode shows Lothal as a dynamic place with a past and future, though, and the characters reference some pretty weighty history of their own. Whenever the dialogue emphasized the show as a found family, I thought it was pushing expectations a little high. Maybe it’s because Dave Filoni has been putting references to wolves into his shows since The Clone Wars, but I thought I could detect a sort of fannish glee, a detailed attention, to the loth-wolves in “Kindred.” They symbolize the spirit of the planet, and it works.įamily and home have always been an important theme of Rebels, but sometimes they felt more like phrases on a planning board than actual bones beneath the story. It also sets up a battle for Lothal that resonates thematically with the show as a whole. It does away with any suggestion of filler the introduction of a new (and/or returning) character is just one of many stand-out moments that are sure to get fans talking. There’s something wonderfully earnest about this episode of Star Wars Rebels. This Star Wars Rebels review contains spoilers.
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